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Encyclopedia > Non Resident Indian
#REDIRECTNon-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin
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Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2006 words)
Indians in the USA are one of the largest among the groups of Indian diaspora, numbering about 1.7 million, and probably the most well off - their median income is 1.5 times that of the host country.
Indians in the UK The Indian emigrant community in the United Kingdom is now in its third generation.
As the Indian government's own Singhvi commission notes, "the sun never sets on the Indian diaspora." Yet the cultural transmission model is rapidly transforming from a one-way street, in which the Motherland gives and the diaspora receives, to a two-way street, in which the diaspora is as confidently Indian, sometimes more so, than India itself.
DEFINITION OF NRIs (809 words)
Indian citizens who stay abroad for employment or for carrying on any business or vocation or for any other purpose in circumstances indicating an indefinite period of stay outside India.
Indian citizens who take up jobs on completion of their higher studies abroad would be regarded as Non-residents from the time of taking up such jobs.
A wife of citizen of Indian or of a person of indian origin is also deemed ot be of Indian origin even though she may be of non-Indian parentage.
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